Art/Work is a monthly profile series that features contemporary visual artists exhibiting in Chicago talking about the inspiration and perspiration behind their creative endeavors.

Once a month, WBEZ's education reporter Linda Lutton breaks down the Chicago Board of Education meetings with Eight Forty-Eight's Alison Cuddy. Check here for analysis and to hear complete audio from the meetings.

Chicago Amplified was created in 2006 to bring wider distribution to some of the most exciting and informative public programming happening throughout the Chicago region. These events serve the purpose of inspiring public discourse about a vast array of topics, from recent scientific discoveries to cultural connections. Click here for more information.  In addition to this full event archive, WBEZ now features an excerpt from the archive each week - a single story or revelation you just have to hear! Click here to check out Dynamic Range...

In the chorus of voices surrounding the upcoming  election, pundits sometimes drown out people. Using text, photographs, audio, and video,  WBEZ’s Dear Chicago commentary series flips the script by having Chicago residents talk about urgent problems affecting their lives--in their own words.  Dear Chicago is a project of WBEZ’s Partnership Program.

Our dueling theater critics, Kelly Kleiman and Jonathan Abarbanel, discuss the latest stage productions and share their choices for the best, and the worst, on the theater scene.

Dynamic Range showcases hidden gems unearthed from Chicago Amplified’s vast archive of public events and appears on weekends. Hear inspiring writers, daring chefs, groundbreaking artists, and newsworthy politicos take on an exciting variety of topics. Always fresh, always thought-provoking, these are conversations and stories you just have to hear.

Global Activism features individuals with Chicago ties who want to make the world a better place. Listen live on Thursdays or subscribe to the Global Activism podcast. If you know someone to nominate for the series, fill out this form. And mark your calendars: join us Saturday, April 28, 2012 at UIC Forum for the 5th Annual Global Activism Expo. Click here for details.

Chicago Public Media (WBEZ) has not independently investigated any persons or organizations that appear on the Global Activism series and does not endorse any such person or organization.

On Wednesdays, Eight Forty-Eight and Radio M’s Tony Sarabia and Catalina Maria Johnson check in to tell us about music from around the globe. Hear interviews with far-flung musicians who are passing through town, album dissections, and of course, lots of music.

Ground Shifters: Stories of Women Changing Unseen Worlds is part of an ongoing collaboration between WBEZ and the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women & Gender in the Arts & Media at Columbia College-Chicago called "Gender, Human Rights, Leadership, and Media." The Institute develops projects with journalists, artists, human rights workers and activists to investigate global issues. Bolivia-based journalist, Jean Friedman-Rudovsky, a Fall 2010 Institute Fellow, presents a five-part series featuring stories of women and girls in Bolivia and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico - Executive Producer, Steve Bynum. Producer/Creative Advisor, Jane Saks.

There are some issues that cut across language, culture and geography. Our occasional series, Here, There, examines how other countries approach these universal questions. We’ve looked at everything from gay soldiers in the United Kingdom's military to public transit in Bogotá. Perhaps there's something about Australia's experience with the invasive cane toad that we can apply to Lake Michigan's Asian carp problem. At the very least -- amidst the differences that make us American or Korean or Russian -- these stories are intended to remind us that the human experience is a shared one.

Race is a national obsession and a Chicago obsession. Yet often our deepest feelings go unspoken. WBEZ and vocalo want to change that.

Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard joins WBEZ's Dan Weissmann the first Thursday of every month at 7pm to take your questions and comments about the state of education in the nation's third largest school district. Our next show is February 2.

We invite you to participate! Submit a question or comment in advance by emailing schoolsontheline@wbez.org or leaving a voicemail at 312-948-4886.